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Please note: WXXI-TV’s weekday schedule listed here runs from 6am to 7pm, Saturdays from Saturday 6am to 11:30am and Sundays from 6am to 12:30pm. The prime time schedule begins on page 2. The 6:00am Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood PBS Kids programs below are shaded in gray. 6:30am Arthur 7vam Molly of Denali Monday-Friday 7:30am Wild Kratts 6:00am Ready Jet Go! 8:00am Hero Elementary 6:30am Arthur 8:30am Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 7:00am Molly of Denali 9:00am Curious George 7:30am Wild Kratts 9:30am A Wider World 8:00am Hero Elementary 10:00am This Old House 8:30am Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 10:30am Ask This Old House 9:00am Curious George 11:00am Woodsmith Shop 9:30am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 11:30am Ciao Italia 10:00am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 10:30am Elinor Wonders Why 11:00am Sesame Street Sunday 11:30am Pinkalicious & Peterrific 12:00pm Dinosaur Train 6:00am Mister Roger’s Neighborhood 12:30pm Clifford the Big Red Dog 6:30am Arthur 1:00pm Sesame Street 7:00am Molly of Denali 1:30pm Elinor Wonders Why 7:30am Wild Kratts 2:00pm Hero Elementary 8:00am Hero Elementary 2:30pm Let’s Go Luna! 8:30am Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 3:00pm Nature Cat 9:00am Curious George 3:30pm Wild Kratts 9:30am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 4:00pm Molly of Denali 10:00am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 4:30pm Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 10:30 Elinor Wonders Why 5:00pm America’s Test Kitchen 11:00am Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi 5:30pm Lidia’s Kitchen 11:30am Gzero World with Ian Bremmer 6:00pm BBC World News America 12:00pm To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 6:30pm BBC World News Outside Source 12:30pm The Chavis Chronicles BBC World News Today (Fridays) 7:00pm PBS NewsHour SPECIALS: There are many holiday specials throughout the month during our daytime schedule. Here are just a few: 12/4 at 7AM + 12/9 at 3PM Wild Kratts: A Creature Christmas • 12/4 at 9AM + 2PM Let’s Go Luna: Luna’s Christmas Around the World • 12/4 at 11AM The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Christmas • 12/4 at 12PM Peg + Cat+ Holidays • 12/4 3PM + 12/11 at 2PM Nature Cat: A Nature Carol • 12/14 at 5PM Streit’s: Matzo & The American Dream. Please visit WXXI.org/holiday for a complete list of these specials. WXXI-TV DECEMBER/EARLY JANUARY 2021
VISIT WXXI.ORG t FOR MORE PROGRAM INFORMATION AND SCHEDULE UPDATES 11:00pm Amanpour and Company Tuesday, December 1 12:00am BBC World News 8:00pm Joe Bonamassa: Royal Tea Live 12:30am Ask This Old House On September 20, 2020 Joe Bonamassa hosted his final performance of 2020 Saturday, December 5 during a livestream concert from the 12:00pm Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide Ryman Theater in Nashville. 2:00pm Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Fest 2019 9:00pm Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 4:00pm Ken Burns: The Civil War 2019 Join one of the world’s great 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend guitarists, and an all-star team of six-string 6:30pm New York Now heroes for this legendary festival. 7:00pm Lawrence Welk Southtown, U.S.A. 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 8:00pm Andy Williams: Greatest Love Songs 12:00am BBC World News Enjoy the romantic crooner’s biggest hits 12:30am Ask This Old House and best-loved ballads. 9:30pm John Denver: Country Roads - Live in Wednesday, December 2 England Filmed in 1986 in the UK, this 8:00pm Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You concert showcases Denver’s fine voice and Celebrate the beloved singer-songwriter’s easygoing manner. career from her early days to her success as 11:00pm Joe Bonamassa: Royal Tea Live a crossover pop superstar. 12:00am Austin City ... Sharon Van Etter/Lucy Dacus 9:30pm Johnny Cash: A Night to Remember Discover a never-before-seen concert from Sunday, December 6 1973, recently found in Sony’s vault. 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 12:00pm The Brain Revolution 12:00am BBC World News 1:30pm Journeys Through the Finger Lakes 12:30am Ask This Old House 3:00pm Andy Williams: Greatest Love Songs 4:30pm Victor Borge: 100 Years of Music & Laughter Thursday, December 3 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend 8:00pm Ledisi Live: A Tribute to Nina Simone 6:30pm Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert Join the powerhouse vocalist Ledisi as 10:30pm Josh Groban: An Evening of Harmony she celebrates the songs of the legendary Join the global superstar for a concert of singer, songwriter & activist Nina Simone. timeless songs and new music from his 9:30pm Aretha Franklin Remembered Celebrate upcoming album Harmony. the legendary Queen of Soul and the first 12:00am Queen Elizabeth I’s Battle/Church Music woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall This film reveals an unlikely gift of the of Fame. violent Reformation era of the British 11:00pm Amanpour and Company monarchy: religious music. 12:00am BBC World News Monday, December 7 12:30am Ask This Old House 8:00pm Ken Burns: Here & ThereLearn about the Friday, December 4 filmmaker’s life and career in interviews 8:00pm Washington Week with colleagues, friends, and Burns himself. 8:30pm Journeys Through the Finger Lakes 9:30pm Amer. Masters: Keith Haring: Street Art Boy WXXI takes you on a journey through the Explore the definitive story of international art lush topography, the vibrant culture, and sensation, who blazed a trail through the art the seminal moments that make up the scene of ‘80s New York and revolutionized the rich tapestry of this extraordinary place. worlds of pop culture and fine art. 10:00pm Survival Guide for Pain-Free Living with 11:00pm Amanpour and Company Peggy Cappy 12:00am BBC World News pg. 2 12:30am Ask This Old House 5:00pm Weekends with Yankee Tuesday, December 8 5:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover WXXI-TV DECEMBER/EARLY JANUARY 2021 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend 8:00pm Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide 6:30pm McLaughlin Group 10:00pm Aging Backwards 3/M. Esmonde-White 7:00pm TBA 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 7:30pm A Charlie Brown’s Christmas 12:00am BBC World News 8:00pm Sanditon On Masterpiece, Ep. 1-3 of 6 12:30am Ask This Old House 11:00pm Pride and Prejudice, Ep. 1 of 6 Wednesday, December 9 12:00am Secrets of Scotland Yard 8:00pm Peter, Paul & Mommy Too Take a magical Monday, December 14 journey through a timeless repertoire of 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow New Orleans children’s songs with America’s most 9:00pm Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir: popular folk trio. Featuring Kelli O’Hara and Richard 10:00pm Joe Bonamassa: Royal Tea Live Thomas 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 10:00pm Independent Lens The Force Go deep 12:00am BBC World News inside the long-troubled Oakland Police 12:30am Ask This Old House Department as it struggles to confront federal demands for reform. Thursday, December 10 11:30pm Amanpour and Company 8:00pm 70s Soul Superstars Join Patti LaBelle for 12:30am BBC World News an all-star reunion of the legends of 1970s Tuesday, December 15 Motown, R&B and Soul. 10:30pm Journeys Through the Finger Lakes 8:00pm Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas 11:00pm Amanpour and Company with Vanessa Williams Enjoy an evening 12:00am BBC World News celebrating Ella Fitzgerald’s entire iconic 12:30am Ask This Old House album of holiday classics presented by the American Pops Orchestra. Friday, December 11 9:00pm Christmas at Belmont Featuring Belmont 8:00pm Washington Week University students along with Michael W. 8:30pm HomeStage at The Little, Pts. 1-4Watch Smith, CeCe Winans, and the Nashville all four episodes of WXXI’s music series Children’s Choir. shot at The Little Theatre. Featuring 10:00pm Frontline I Return from ISIS The story of Danielle Ponder, Herb Smith and the an American boy taken by his mother to Freedom Trio, Maybird, and hip hop the ISIS-controlled city of Raqqa. collective Moses Rockwell, Brendon 11:00pm Amanpour and Company Caroselli, and Gary Lamaar. 12:00am BBC World News 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 12:30am Ask This Old House 12:00am BBC World News Wednesday, December 16 12:30am Ask This Old House 8:00pm Nature Animal Odd Couples There are Saturday, December 12 countless stories of the most unlikely 12:00pm Paul Simon’s Concert in the Park cross-species relationships imaginable. 2:00pm Peter, Paul & Mommy Too 9:00pm NOVA Einstein’s Quantum Riddle Join 4:00pm Ken Burns: Country Music physicists as they capture light from across 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend the universe in a bid to prove Einstein’s 6:30pm New York Now “spooky action at a distance.” 7:00pm Lawrence Welk Milestones & Memories 10:00pm NOVA Apollo’s Daring Mission Hear 10:00pm Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of how the first mission to Sunday, December 13 the moon, Apollo 8, pioneered ground- breaking technologies. 1:00pm Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 3:00pm Peter, Paul & Mommy Too 12:00am BBC World News pg. 3 12:30am Ask This Old House 10:00pm Ledisi Live: A Tribute to Nina Simone Thursday, December 17 Join the powerhouse vocalist Ledisi as she celebrates the songs of the legendary 8:00pm WXXI Live Forum: COVID-19 Vaccines singer, songwriter and activist. on the Horizon In this live forum we’ll 11:30pm Bluegrass Underground Gregory Alan discuss what you need to know about the Isakov vaccines and the latest in COVID-19 research 12:00am Austin City Limits Khalid/MacDeMarco and treatment. 9:00pm Midsomer Murders Let Us Prey, Part 2 Sunday, December 20 A series of murders in Midsomer St. 1:00pm Purdue 86th Anniversary Christmas Show Claire seem to be inspired by macabre 2:00pm Rick Steves European Christmas images on a medieval fresco recently 4:00pm This Old House discovered in the church crypt. 4:30pm Ask This Old House 10:30pm Streit’s: Matzo and the American Dream 5:00pm Weekends with Yankee Learn more about the iconic Streit’s 5:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover factory in New York, a fifth-generation 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend family business. 6:30pm McLaughlin Group 11:30pm Amanpour and Company 7:00pm Phil Spencer’s Stately Homes, Ep. 1 of 6 12:30am Ask This Old House 8:00pm Sanditon on Masterpiece, Ep. 4-6 Friday, December 18 11:00pm Pride and Prejudice, Ep. 2 of 6 12:00am Phil Spencer’s Stately Homes, Ep. 1 of 6 8:00pm Washington Week 8:30pm Christmas at St. Paul’s Go behind the Monday, December 21 scenes as the cathedral gears up for the 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow Orlando Christmas season. 9:00pm The American St. Nick 9:30pm Call The Midwife Holiday SpecialSee 10:00pm Independent Lens Rumble: The Indians what happens when a new nun and four Who Rocked The World Chinese orphans arrive unexpectedly at 11:30pm Amanpour and Company Nonnatus House. 12:30am BBC World News 11:00pm Amanpour and Company Tuesday, December 22 12:00am BBC World News 12:30am Ask This Old House 8:00pm City Hall Explore the role of city government and see how Boston provides Saturday, December 19 services for its citizens. 1:00pm Pati’s Mexican Table 12:35pm Amanpour and Company 1:30pm Jamie’s Quick & Easy Food Wednesday, December 23 2:00pm America’s Test Kitchen 3:00pm Second Opinion Depression 8:00pm Nature Snowbound: Animals of Winter 3:30pm Rick Steves’ Europe 9:00pm NOVA Pluto and Beyond Join the mission 4:00pm Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees as the New Horizons spacecraft attempts 5:00pm WXXI Live Forum: COVID-19 Vaccines to fly by NASA’s most distant target yet. on the Horizon 10:00pm NOVA Flying Supersonic A history of the 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend legendary Concorde, the passenger plane 6:30pm New York Now that flew from the late 70s till 2003 at twice 7:00pm Lawrence Welk Show Pleasant Dreams the speed of sound. 8:00pm Father Brown The House of God 11:00pm Amanpour and Company Suspicions are aroused when the holiest 12:00am BBC World News house in Kembleford is linked to the death 12:30am Ask This Old House of a wanton woman. Thursday, December 24 9:00pm Are You Being Served? The Hold Up 8:00pm 9:30pm Hold The SunsetDoing A Bunk Georgie Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas has started making a video about Roger Lucy discovers that much of what we enjoy and his fixation on his puppet Methuselah in contemporary Christmas has surprising but decides it’s not quite working. Tudor origins, rooted in devotion & charity. pg. 4 9:00pm Midsomer Murders The Christmas 5:00pm Weekends with Yankee Haunting, Part 1 & 2 It’s Christmas and 5:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover new detective Charlie Nelson moves into 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend Midsomer. He’s thrown straight into an 6:30pm McLaughlin Group intriguing mystery in Morton Shallows. 7:00pm Philip Spencer’s Stately Homes, Ep. 2 of 6 10:30pm Queen Elizabeth I’s Battle/Church Music 8:00pm Sanditon On Masterpiece, Ep. 7-8 11:30pm Amanpour and Company 10:00pm Jane Austen: Behind Closed Doors 12:30am Ask This Old House Host Lucy Worsley traces novelist Jane Friday, December 25 Austen’s life and career. 11:00pm Pride and Prejudice, Ep. 3 of 6 12:00pm Holiday Handbells: The Raleigh Ringers 12:00am Philip Spencer’s Stately Homes, Ep. 2 of 6 1:00pm Wheaton College Christmas Festival 2:00pm St. Olaf Christmas Festival Monday, December 28 3:00pm Crane Candelight Concert 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow Orlando 4:00pm Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir 9:00pm Ganz: How I Lost My Beetle Traces the 5:00pm Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas legacy of Josef Ganz, the Jewish visionary 6:00pm BBC World News America behind the Volkswagen Beetle. 6:30pm BBC World News Today 10:00pm Vernon Jordan: Make It Plain Chronicles 7:00pm PBS News Hour his rise as a pioneering attorney, 8:00pm Washington Week businessman, civil rights leader and 8:30pm Christmas on the Danube Travel the counselor to presidents spanning the era majestic Danube river at holiday time. from LBJ to Barack Obama. 9:00pm Call The Midwife Holiday Special 2020 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 10:30pm Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas 12:00am BBC World News with Vanessa Williams 12:30am Ask This Old House 11:30pm Amanpour and Company Tuesday, December 29 12:30am Ask This Old House 8:00pm American Masters Laura Ingalls Wilder: Saturday, December 26 Prairie to Page Explore the cultural legacy 1:00pm Pati’s Mexican Table and complicated history of this author. 1:30pm Jamie’s Quick & Easy Food 9:30pm The Queen Mother, Pt. 1 & 2 of 2 2:00pm America’s Test Kitchen 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 3:00pm Second Opinion Rheumatoid Arthritis 12:00am BBC World News 3:30pm Rick Steves’ Europe 12:30am Ask This Old House 4:00pm Live Art: Family (MovetoInclude.org) Wednesday, December 30 5:00pm Farther and Sun: A Dyslexic Road 8:00pm Nature Cold Warriors: Wolves & Buffalo Trip (MovetoInclude.org) 9:00pm NOVA The Impossible FlightFollow two 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend intrepid pilots as they construct and fly the 6:30pm New York Now first solar-powered airplane around the 7:00pm The Lawrence Welk ShowChristmas world. 8:00pm Father Brown The Blood of Anarchists 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 9:00pm Are You Being Served? Christmas 1975 12:00am BBC World News 9:30pm Are You Being Served? Christmas 1979 12:30am Ask This Old House 10:00pm Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You 11:30pm Bluegrass Underground Steve Earle and Thursday, December 31 the Dukes 8:00pm United In Song: Celebrating The 12:00am Austin City Limits Gary Clark, Jr. Resilience of America Say goodbye to Sunday, December 27 2020 with a concert celebrating the 1:00pm John Denver: Country Roads - Live in irrepressible strength of Americans. England 9:30pm Great Performances 42nd Street 2:30pm Ken Burns: Here & There 12:00am Amanpour and Company 4:00pm This Old House Friday, January 1 4:30pm Ask This Old House 8:00pm Washington Week pg. 5 8:30pm HomeStage at The Little: Daniel Ponder 9:00pm PBS American Portrait I Dream 9:00pm Great Performances From Vienna: The 10:00pm Frontline New Year’s Celebration 2021 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 10:30pm Sympathetic Strings: Stories of the 12:00am BBC World News Hardanger Fiddle 12:30am Ask This Old House 11:00pm Amanpour and Company Wednesday, January 6 12:00am BBC World News 12:30am Ask This Old House 8:00pm Nature A Squirrel’s Guide to Success 9:00pm NOVA Prediction by the Numbers Saturday, January 2 10:00pm When Disaster Strikes A Perfect Storm: 1:00pm Pati’s Mexican Table Mozambique 1:30pm Jamie’s Quick & Easy Food 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 2:00pm America’s Test Kitchen, New Season 12:00am BBC World News 3:00pm Second Opinion Smoking Cessation 12:30am Ask This Old House 3:30pm Rick Steves’ Europe Thursday, January 7 4:00pm American Masters Laura Ingalls Wilder: 8:00pm Dialogue in Metal (WXXI) Jesse James Prairie to Page of West Coast Choppers fame and world 5:30pm Orchard House: Home of Little Women renowned sculpture artist Albert Paley 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend collaborate to make two sculptures. 6:30pm New York Now 9:00pm Midsomer Murders Wild Harvest 7:00pm Lawrence Welk Show New Years 10:30pm Hold the Sunset 8:00pm Father Brown The Blood of Anarchists 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 9:00pm Are You Being Served? 12:00am BBC World News 9:30pm Are You Being Served? 12:30am Ask This Old House 10:00pm John Denver: Country Roads - Live in England 11:00pm Bluegrass Underground Loren Morrow Friday, January 8 12:00am ACL Hall of Fame: The First Six Years 8:00pm Washington Week Sunday, January 3 8:30pm HomeStage at The Little: Herb Smith and the Freedom Trio 1:00pm Julia Child: Best Bites 9:00pm Frontline A Thousand Cuts 2:30pm Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 4:00pm This Old House 12:00am BBC World News 4:30pm Ask This Old House 12:30am Ask This Old House 5:00pm Weekends with Yankee 5:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Saturday, January 9 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend 1:00pm Pati’s Mexican Table 6:30pm McLaughlin Group 1:30pm Jamie’s Quick & Easy Food 7:00pm Phil Spencer’s Stately Homes, Ep. 3 of 6 2:00pm America’s Test Kitchen, New Season 8:00pm Prince Albert: A Victorian Hero Revealed 3:00pm Second Opinion Opioids: Overdose... 9:00pm Elizabeth is Missing on Masterpiece 3:30pm Rick Steves’ Europe 11:00pm Pride & Prejudice, Ep. 4 of 6 4:00pm To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters on 12:00am Phil Spencer’s Stately Homes, Ep. 3 of 6 Masterpiece Monday, January 4 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30pm New York Now 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow American Stories 7:00pm Lawrence Welk Show Transportation 9:00pm Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening 8:00pm Father Brown The Skylark Scandal 10:00pm Independent Lens A Woman’s Work: The 9:00pm Are You Being Served? NFL’s Cheerleader Problem 9:30pm Are You Being Served? Series Finale 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 10:00pm Johnny Cash: A Night to Remember 12:00am BBC World News 11:00pm Bluegrass Underground Glen Hansard 12:30am Ask This Old House 12:00am Austin City Limits Foo Fighters Tuesday, January 5 8:00pm Finding Your Roots Breaking the Silences pg. 6 TV21.2/CABLE 1275 NOVEMBER PRIMETIME
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Tuesday, December 1 7pm Driving While Black: Race, Space & 5:30pm BBC World News America 1pm Illustrative Math Mobility in America 6pm France 24 2pm NOVA The Truth About Fat 10pm PBS NewsHour 6:30pm NHK Newsline 3pm African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross 7pm Standing On Sacred Ground Pilgrims & Tourists Making A Way Out of No Way (1897-1940) 8pm America ReFramed There Are Jews Here Saturday, December 5 4pm Latino Americans Empire of Dreams 9:30pm Our American Family: The Mays 2:30pm Reconstruction: America After 5pm DW News 10pm PBS NewsHour The Civil War 5:30pm BBC World News America 5:30pm Independent Lens Won’t You Be My Wednesday, December 9 6pm France 24 Neighbor? 1pm Nova Rise of the Mammals 6:30pm NHK Newsline 8pm Ken Burns: The National Parks 2pm Nature Okavango: River of Dreams: Inferno 7pm Relieving Stress with Yoga with Peggy Cappy 10pm America ReFramed... Woman’s Fight 3pm Eugenics Crusade: American Experience 8pm America ReFramed ...Woman’s Fight for Justice for Justice 5pm DW News 9:30pm Beth Ames Swartz/Reminders /Invisible Light 5:30pm BBC World News America 10pm PBS NewsHour Sunday, December 6 6pm France 24 Wednesday, December 2 2pm Driving While Black: Race, Space & 6:30pm NHK Newsline 2pm NOVA Pluto and Beyond Mobility in America 7pm POV Shorts There’s No Place Like Home 3pm African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross 5pm 3 Steps to Pain-Free Living 7:30pm Indep. Lens Jim Allison: Breakthrough Rise! (1940-1968) 6:30pm Nature Equus: Story of the Horse: 9pm Frontline 4pm Latino Americans War and Peace Origins 10pm PBS NewsHour 5pm DW News 8pm Nature Equus: Story /The Horse: Chasing 5:30pm BBC World News America The Wind Thursday, December 10 6pm France 24 9:30pm Rick Steves Fascism In Europe 1pm Illustrative Math 6:30pm NHK Newsline 2pm SciGirls Habitat Havoc 7pm Reconstruction: America After The Civil War Monday, December 7 2:30pm SciGirls Dolphin Dive 9:30pm ...Jordan: African Americans & the War 1pm NOVA Cat Tales 3pm Test Tube Babies: American Experience 10pm PBS NewsHour 2pm Nature Okavango: River of Dreams: 4pm Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed Paradise The World The Robot Thursday, December 3 3pm Latino Americans Foreigners In Their 5pm DW News 1pm Illustrative Math Own Land 5:30pm BBC World News America 2pm Nature Nature’s Miniature Miracles 4pm Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed 6pm France 24 3pm African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross The World The Telescope 6:30pm NHKNewsline A More Perfect Union (1968-2013) 5pm DW News 7pm NOVA Bird Brain 4pm Latino Americans The New Latinos 5:30pm BBC World News America 8pm NOVA Rise of the Rockets 5pm DW News 6pm France 24 9pm Earth’s Sacred Wonders House of the Divine 5:30pm BBC World News America 6:30pm NHK Newsline 10pm PBS NewsHour 6pm France 24 7pm Walking The Camino: Six Ways to 6:30pm NHK Newsline Santiago Friday, December 11 7pm Reconstruction: America After The Civil War 8pm Quakers: The Quiet Revolutionaries 1pm Illustrative Math 10pm PBS NewsHour 9pm Tending Nature Guarding Ancestral 2pm Poetry In America... Langston Hughes Grounds with the Wiyot 2:30pm Poetry In America... Edward Hirsch Friday, December 4 9:30pm Stories from the Stage Courage 3pm Ursula K. Le Guin: American Masters 1pm Illustrative Math 10pm PBS NewsHour 4pm Shakespeare Uncovered Much Ado About 2pm Poetry In America ...Robert Hayden Nothing with Helen Hunt 2:30pm Poetry In America... W.H. Auden Tuesday, December 8 5pm DW News 3pm Maya Angelou: American Masters 1pm Illustrative Math 5:30pm BBC World News America 2pm Nature Okavango: River of Dreams: Limbo 5pm DW News 6pm France 24 3pm Latino Americans Peril and Promise 6:30pm NHK Newsline 5:30pm BBC World News America 4pm Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed 6pm France 24 The World The Airplane 7pm Mark Twain’s Journey/Jerusalem: Dreamland 6:30pm NHK Newsline 5pm DW News
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Saturday, December 12 6:30pm NHK Newsline 4pm Holy Silence 1:30pm Pov Shorts There’s No Place Like Home 7pm Standing On Sacred Ground Profit & Loss 5pm To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 2pm Mark Twain’s Journey to Jerusalem: Dreamland 8pm America ReFramed Random Acts of Legacy 5:30pm Washington Week 3pm Ornament of the World 9pm Reel South Gimme A Faith 6pm DW Focus On Europe 5pm To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 10pm PBS NewsHour 6:30pm Migrant Kitchen Omotenashi 5:30pm Washington Week 7pm Backs Against/Wall: Howard Thurman Story 6pm DW Focus On Europe Wednesday, December 16 8pm Maya Angelou: American Masters 6:30pm Migrant Kitchen Badmaash 1pm Climate Change - The Facts 10pm America ReFramed Random Acts of Legacy 7pm Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice & Glory: Amer. Exp. 2pm Rockies: Kingdoms of the Sky 8pm Miles Davis: American Masters 3pm National Parks: America’s Best Idea Sunday, December 20 10pm America ReFramed There Are Jews Here 5pm DW News 1pm Colorado Experience The Fairy Caves 5:30pm BBC World News America 1:30pm Start Up Will Power Fitness Gym Sunday, December 13 6pm France 24 2pm To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 1pm Colorado Experience Western Water, and Power 6:30pm NHK Newsline 2:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 2pm To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 7pm Our American Family: The Mays 3pm Open Mind 2:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 7:30pm Independent Lens The Force 3:30pm Earth Focus ...Lumber Poaching... 3pm Open Mind 9pm Frontline Return from ISIS 4pm Dw Global 3000 3:30pm Earth Focus ...The Battle/Water Rights In Chile 10pm PBS NewsHour 4:30pm On Story ...A Conversation w/ Callie Khouri 4pm Dw Global 3000 5pm America ReFramed Random Acts of Legacy 4:30pm On Story... A Conversation with Nancy Meyers Thursday, December 17 6pm Reel South Gimme A Faith 5pm America ReFramed There Are Jews Here 1:00pm Illustrative Math 7pm Three Faiths, One God 6:30pm Our American Family: The Mays 2pm Himalaya: Kingdoms of the Sky 8pm Nature Animal Odd Couples 7pm Three Faiths, One God 3pm National Parks: America’s Best Idea 9pm Same God 8pm Nature Santa’s Wild Home 5pm DW News 9pm Nature Snow Bears 5:30pm BBC World News America Monday, December 21 10pm Independent Lens The Judge 6pm France 24 1pm NOVA Secrets of the Forbidden City 6:30pm NHK Newsline 2pm NOVA Bigger Than T. Rex Monday, December 14 7pm NOVA Einstein’s Quantum Riddle 3pm National Parks: America’s Best Idea 1pm Nova Wonders Can We Make Life? 8pm NOVA Apollo’s Daring Mission 5pm DW News 2pm Andes: Kingdoms of the Sky 9pm Earth’s Sacred Wonders Closer to the Divine 5:30pm BBC World News America 3pm National Parks: America’s Best Idea 10pm PBS NewsHour 6pm France 24 5pm DW News 6:30pm NHK Newsline 5:30pm BBC World News America Friday, December 18 7pm Many Storeys & Last Days of Thomas 6pm France 24 1pm Illustrative Math Merton 6:30pm NHK Newsline 2pm Poetry In America... Emily Dickinson 8pm Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer 7pm Chaplains, Part 1 2:30pm Great Performances Much Ado About Nothing 9pm Tending Nature Reclaiming Agriculture 8pm Chaplains, Part 2 5pm DW News 9:30pm Stories from the Stage Unexpected Gift 9pm Tending Nature Preserving The Desert with NALC 5:30pm BBC World News America 10pm PBS NewsHour 9:30pm Stories from the Stage Holiday Compilation 6pm France 24 10pm PBS NewsHour 6:30pm NHK Newsline Tuesday, December 22 7pm Inside The Vatican 1pm 30pm Illustrative Math Tuesday, December 15 9pm Holy Silence 2pm Nature Sex, Lies and Butterflies 1pm Illustrative Math 10pm PBS NewsHour 3pm National Parks: America’s Best Idea 2pm SciGirls Aquabots 5pm DW News 2:30pm National Parks: America’s Best Idea Saturday, December 19 5:30pm BBC World News America 5pm DW News 1:30pm Our American Family: The Kurowskis 6pm France 24 5:30pm BBC World News America 2pm Inside The Vatican 6:30pm NHK Newsline 6pm France 24 7pm Standing On Sacred Ground Fire & Ice pg. 8 TV21.2/CABLE 1275 NOVEMBER PRIMETIME
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Rick Steves’ Europe (12/28) 12/11-12/17 Veggie-palooza Jamie Oliver and Jazzy Vegetarian’s 10:00pm Family Travel with Collen Kelly Laura Theodore craft healthy and satisfying meatless mains, sides, 10:30pm Fly Brother with Ernest White II and desserts 11:00pm Rick Steves’ Europe 12/18-12/24 Magical Christmas CREATE experts show you how to 11:30pm America’s Test Kitchen prepare a feast and decorate your home for Christmas. 12:00am Kitchen Queens: New Orleans 12/25-12/31 Best of 2020 We’re saying “so long!” to 2020 with a Create Tuesdays showcase of fan favorites from the past year. 6:00am J. Schwanke’s Life in Bloom 6:30pm Modern Pioneering with Georgia Pellegrini Create Mondays 7:00am Quilting Arts 7:30am Painting and Travel 6:00am Craft in America 8:00am Craftsman’s Legacy 7:00am Best of Sewing with Nancy 8:30am Woodsmith Shop 7:30am Paint This with Jerry Yarnell 9:00am Mike Colameco’s Real Food 8:00am This Old House 9:30am Tastemakers 8:30am Ask This Old House 10:00am Passion Italy 9:00am Dining with the Chef 10:30am Travelscope 9:30am Iowa Ingredient 11:00am Rick Steves’ Europe 10:00am Daytripper 11:30am Best of The Joy of Painting 10:30am Fly Brother with Ernest White II 12:00pm Mike Colameco’s Real Food 11:00am Rick Steves’ Europe 12:30pm Tastemakers 11:30am Best of Joy of Painting 1:00pm Quilting Arts 12:00pm Mexico - One Plate at a Time 1:30pm Painting and Travel 12:30pm To Dine For With Kate Sullivan/ Annabel 2:00pm Craftsman’s Legacy Langbein The Free Range Cook(12/21) 2:30pm Woodsmith Shop 1:00pm Best of Sewing with Nancy 3:00pm Quilting Arts 1:30pm Paint This with Jerry Yarnell 3:30pm Cook’s Country 2:00pm This Old House 4:00pm Mike Colameco’s Real Food 2:30pm Ask This Old House 4:30pm Tastemakers 3:00pm Best of Sewing with Nancy 5:00pm Passion Italy 3:30pm America’s Test Kitchen 5:30pm Travelscope 4:00pm Mexico - One Plate at a Time 6:00pm Rick Steves’ Europe 4:30pm Iowa Ingredient 6:30pm Kitchen Queens: New Orleans 5:00pm Daytripper 7:00pm Sara’s Weeknight Meals 5:30pm Fly Brother with Ernest White II 7:30pm Joanne Weir Cooking Confidence 6:00pm Rick Steves’ Europe 8:00pm In Julia’s Kitchen with Master Chefs 6:30pm Kitchen Queens: New Orleans French Chef Classics (12/8) 7:00pm Simply Ming 8:30pm Kitchen Queens: New Orleans 7:30pm Cook’s Country 9:00pm Dishing with Julia (12/1) 8:00pm America’s Test Kitchen pg. 10 The Great British Baking Show(12/8) 10:30pm Curious Traveler Jamie’s Ultimate Veg (12/15) Afro-Latino Travels (12/9) How to Cook Well at Christmas (12/22) 11:00pm Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions America’s Test Kitchen (12/29) Outside with Greg Aliello (12/23) 9:30pm Samantha Brown (12/29) 11:30pm America’s Test Kitchen 10:00pm Rick Steves’ Europe 12:00am Kitchen Queens: New Orleans 10:30pm Travelscope 11:00pm Passion Italy Create Thursdays 11:30pm Cook’s Country 6:00am Why Quilts Matter 12:00am Kitchen Queens: New Orleans 6:30pm Beads, Baubles, and Jewels Create Wednesdays 7:00am Quilting Arts 7:30am Painting with Paulson 6:00am Make It Artsy 8:00am Craftman’s Legacy 6:30pm Urban Conversion 8:30am Woodsmith Shop 7:00am Knit and Crochet Now 9:00am Mike Colameco’s Real Food 7:30am Painting with Wilson Bickford 9:30am Tastemakers 8:00am American Woodshop 10:00am Wild Travels 8:30am Garage with Steve Butler 10:30am Travelscope 9:00am Hubert Keller: Secrets of a Chef 11:00am Rick Steves’ Europe 9:30am America’s Test Kitchen 11:30am Best of The Joy of Painting 10:00am Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions 12:00pm Mike Colameco’s Real Food 10:30am Curious Traveler 12:30pm Tastemakers Afro-Latino Travels (12/9) 1:00pm Quilting Arts 11:00am Rick Steves’ Europe 1:30pm Painting with Paulson 11:30am Best of The Joy of Painting 2:00pm Craftman’s Legacy 12:00pm Hubert Keller: Secrets of a Chef 2:30pm Woodsmith Shop 12:30pm America’s Test Kitchen 3:00pm Quilting Arts 1:00pm Knit and Crochet Now 3:30pm Cook’s Country 1:30pm Painting with Wilson Bickford 4:00pm Mike Colameco’s Real Food 2:00pm American Woodshop 4:30pm Tastemakers 2:30pm Garage with Steve Butler 5:00pm Wild Travels 3:00pm Knit and Crochet Now 5:30pm Travelscope 3:30pm America’s Test Kitchen 6:00pm Rick Steves’ Europe 4:00pm Hubert Keller: Secrets of a Chef 6:30pm Kitchen Queens: New Orleans 4:30pm America’s Test Kitchen 7:00pm Nick Stellino: Storyteller in the Kitchen 5:00pm Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions 7:30pm Pati’s Mexican Table Outside with Greg Aliello (12/23) 8:00pm Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Kitchen 5:30pm Curious Traveler 8:30pm Kitchen Queens: New Orleans Afro-Latino Travels (12/9) 9:00pm In Julia’s Kitchen with Master Chefs 6:00pm Rick Steves’ Europe The Great British Baking Show(12/10) 6:30pm Kitchen Queens: New Orleans The Jazzy Vegetarian(12/17) 7:00pm Field Trip with Curtis Stone The Magic of Christmas in Alsace (12/24) 7:30pm Cook’s Country Lidia’s Kitchen (12/31) 8:00pm Lidia’s Kitchen 9:30pm In Julia’s Kitchen with Master Chefs 8:30pm Kitchen Queens: New Orleans The Jazzy Vegetarian(12/17) 9:00pm In Julia’s Kitchen with Master Chefs European Christmas Markets (12/24) The Great British Baking Show(12/9) Weekends with Yankee (12/31) Jamie’s Ultimate Veg (12/16) 10:00pm Rick Steves’ Europe Christmastime in New Orleans (12/23) 10:30pm Travelscope Jacques Pepin: Heart & Soul (12/30) 11:00pm Wild Travels 9:30pm In Julia’s Kitchen with Master Chefs 11:30pm Cook’s Country Travelscope (12/30) 12:00am Kitchen Queens: New Orleans 10:00pm Rick Steves’ Europe pg. 11 Create Fridays 8:00pm Somewhere South ATK: Home for the Holidays (12/19) 6:00am For Your Home Jacques Pépin: American Masters (12/26) 6:30am Growing Bolder 9:00pm Best of The Joy of Painting 7:00am Best of Sewing with Nancy 9:30pm Best of The Joy of Painting 7:30am Paint This with Jerry Yarnell 10:00pm Richard Bangs 8:00am This Old House 11:00pm Mexico - One Plate at a Time 8:30am Ask This Old House 11:30pm Mike Colameco’s Real Food 9:00am Hubert Keller: Secrets of a Chef 12:00am Mike Colameco’s Real Food 9:30am America’s Test Kitchen 10:00am Cycle Around Japan Create Sundays 10:30am Travels with Darley 6:00am Classical Stretch 11:00am Rick Steves’ Europe 6:30am Classical Stretch 11:30am Best of The Joy of Painting 7:00am It’s Sew Easy 12:00pm Hubert Keller: Secret of a Chef 7:30am Grand View 12:30pm America’s Test Kitchen Wyland’s Art Studio (12/27) 1:00pm Best of Sewing with Nancy 8:00am Classical Stretch 1:30pm Paint This with Jerry Yarnell 8:30am Classical Stretch 2:00pm This Old House 9:00am New Day New Chef 2:30pm Ask This Old House 9:30am The Jazzy Vegetarian 3:00pm Best of Sewing with Nancy 10:00am Trails to Oishi Tokyo 3:30pm America’s Test Kitchen 10:30am Journeys in Japan 4:00pm Hubert Keller: Secret of a Chef 11:00am P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home 4:30pm America’s Test Kitchen 11:30am Garden Smart 5:00pm Canvasing the World 12:00pm-5:00pm See CREATE Showcase on page 9 5:30pm Travels with Darley 5:00pm Kitchen Queens: New Orleans 6:00pm Rick Steves’ Europe 5:30pm Simply Ming 6:30pm Kitchen Queens: New Orleans 6:00pm Food Flirts 7:00pm Simply Ming 6:30pm Lidia’s Kitchen 7:30pm Cook’s Country 7:00pm Sara’s Weeknight Meals 8:00pm America’s Test Kitchen 7:30pm Joanne Weir’s Cooking Confidence 8:30pm Kitchen Queens 8:00pm Somewhere South 9:00pm-12:00am See CREATE Showcase on page 9 Jacques Pépin: American Masters (12/27) Create Saturdays 9:00pm The Great British Baking Show Jamie’s Ultimate Veg (12/13) 6:00am Classical Stretch No Passport Required (12/27) 6:30am Yoga in Practice 9:30pm Jamie’s Ultimate Veg (/12/13) 7:00am Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting 10:00pm Great Estates Scotland 7:30am Art of a Cowboy Richard Bangs 8:00am Ask This Old House 11:00pm To Dine For With Kate Sullivan 8:30am This Old House 11:30pm Tastemakers 9:00am P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home 12:00am Tastemakers 9:30am Growing a Greener World 10:00am-3:00pm See CREATE Showcase on page 9 3:00pm This Old House 3:30pm Ask This Old House 4:00pm America’s Test Kitchen 4:30pm Cook’s Country 5:00pm Richard Bangs 6:00pm Rick Steves’ Europe 6:30pm Kitchen Queens: New Orleans 7:00pm Nick Stellino: Storyteller in the Kitchen 7:30pm Pati’s Mexican Table pg. 12 AM 1370 DECEMBER/EARLY JAN. 2021 SCHEDULE
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MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 12AM Beale Street Caravan The Latin Alternative 1AM Undercurrents with Greg McVicar 2AM 3AM World Café with Raina Douris Undercurrents Undercurrents 4AM with Greg McVicar with Greg McVicar 5AM 6AM Morning Edition The Midnight Special Acoustic Café with Steve Inskeep, David Green, Noel King, Rachel Martin, with Rob Reinhart 7AM and local host Beth Adams 8AM Folk Alley World if Gospel 9AM with Wayne Norwood Open Tunings with Scott Regan 10AM Best of Open Tunings Lost and Found Songs 11AM with Scott Regan Time Machine 12PM Sounds from the Global Village Connections with Evan Dawson La Dolce Vita 1PM with John Sebaste eTown 2PM Afropop Worldwide World Café with Raina Douris Mountain Stage 3PM Sound Opinions with Larry Groce 4PM All Things Considered with Mary Louise Kelly, Ari Shapiro, Whole Lotta Shakin’ The Midnight Special 5PM and local host Alex Chichton with Mike Murray 6PM Acoustic Café In the Fold (M) Road to Joy (T) Mystery Train (W) American Routes 7PM Radioland with Yarms (Th) Rejuvination with Rob Reinhart 8PM World Cafe Live from Furpeace Ranch Sundilla Radio Hour 9PM with Raina Douris The Grateful Dead Hour Alt Latino Blacks 10PM The Difference and Blues Stuck in the Psychedelic Era Passport Approved 11PM with The Hermit pg. 13 WXXI FM91.5 SYNDICATED CONCERT SERIES
VISIT CLASSICAL915.ORG t FOR MORE PROGRAM INFORMATION AND SCHEDULE UPDATES MONDAYS @ 8PM p; Gianandrea Noseda, cond) PERFORMANCE UPSTATE 12/22 Handel: Messiah (Christina Landshamer, s; Robin Blaze, ct; Paul Appleby, t; Paul Armin 12/7 Performance from the Skaneateles and Geneva Edelmann, bar; Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh; Music Festivals, Pegasus Early Music and various Betsy Burleigh, dir; Manfred Honeck, cond) Psalm settings performed by Madrigalia and 12/29 Greenwood: There Will Be Blood Rodrigo: Cordancia Chamber Orchestra. Fantasía Para un Gentilhombre Stravinsky: Jeu de 12/14 We’ll hear from Pegasus, the Skaneateles cartes, Ballet in Three Deals Ravel: Suite No. 2 from Festival and the premier performance of Scott Daphnis et Chloé (Pablo Villegas, g; Gustavo Gimeno, Perkins From Generation to Generation: A cond) Celebration through Psalms performed by the Third 1/5 Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 Rachmaninoff: Presbyterian vocal choirs and orchestra. Symphony No. 2 (Daniil Trifonov, p; Yan Pascal 12/21 Selections from the “Songs of the Soul” Tortelier, cond) and “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” concerts by 1/12 Sibelius: Finlandia, Violin Concerto, Madrigalia, the Geneva Music Festival’s “Clive Symphony No. 2 (James Ehnes, v; Osmo Vänskä, Greensmith and Friends” selections, the Gateways cond) Festival Orchestra’s performance of Carlos Simon’s Amen! and Of and Between performed by fivebyfive. @ 12/28 We’ll sample the Roberts Wesleyan College WEDNESDAYS 8PM MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Wind Ensemble, the Rochester Early Music Festival, we’ll hear 2018 Young Pianist Grand Prize Winner 12/2 Chabrier: España Falla: Nights in the Gardens Christopher Zandieh at the MostArts Festival and of Spain for Piano and Orchestra Bizet/Hoffmann: selections from “Nevertheless, She Persisted” Suite No. 1 from Carmen Rimsky-Korsakov: concert by Pegasus Early Music. Capriccio espagnol Ravel: Boléro (Jorge Federico 1/4 Musica Spei, Skaneateles Piano Festival, Osorio, p; Jun Märkl, cond) Selections from “Nevertheless She Persisted” with 12/9 Beethoven: Symphony No. 1, Violin Concerto, Pegasus Early Music, Madrigalia and the Roberts Symphony No. 2 (Anthony Marwood, v; Ken-David Wesleyan College Wind Ensemble Masur and Gemma New, cond) 1/11 Café Music from the Skaneateles Festival, 12/16 Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto Mahler: “Women Composers Across the Ages” from the Symphony No. 1 (Simone Lamsma, v; Fabien Gabel, Geneva Music Festival, and more “women” from cond) Pegasus Early Music 12/23 Ives: The Unanswered QuestionJohn Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls Mozart/Sussmeyer: TUESDAYS @ 8PM Requiem (Mary Wilson, s; Clara Osowski, ms; Evan BEST OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LeRoy Johnson, t; Peixin Chen, bs; Milwaukee Children’s Choir, Marco Melendez, dir; Milwaukee 12/1 Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique Tchaikovsky: Symphony Chorus, Lee Erickson, dir; Cheryl Frazes Serenade for Strings Respighi: Feste Romana (Serge Hill, dir; Edo de Waart and Yaniv Dinur, cond) Koussevitzky and Seiji Ozawa, cond) 12/30 Milhaud: La Création du monde Gershwin: Piano Concerto Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Jeffrey Kahane, p and cond) 12/8 Burke/Jang/Rosenblum/Vali/Williams: “The 1/6 Adams: The Chairman Dances, Foxtrot for Elements” Holst: The Planets (Mendelssohn Choir Orchestra Nielsen: Concerto for Flute and Orchestra of Pittsburgh; Betsy Burleigh, dir; Manfred Honeck, Adams: Violin Concerto Nielsen: Symphony No. 5 cond) (Sonora Slocum, f; Leila Josefowics, v; Edo de Waart 12/15 Casella: Symphonic Fragments from La and Anu Tali, cond) donna serpent Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 5 1/13 Mendelssohn: Trumpet Overture Beethoven: Schumann: Symphony No. 2 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano Concerto No. 2 Gabrieli/Ed. Block: Canzon pg. 14 Septimi Toni à 8 (No. 2) Gabrieli/Ed. King: Canzon FRIDAYS @ 8PM Primi Toni, Canzona per sonare No. 2 Michele SYMPHONYCAST Dall’Ongaro: La primavera Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, Italian (Orion Weiss, p; Ken-David 12/4 Barber: Symphony No. 1 Gershwin: Piano Masur, cond) Concerto Penderecki: Adagio from Symphony No. 3 Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side THURSDAYS @ 8PM Story (Conrad Tao, p; Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Falletta, cond) 12/3 Gershwin: Cuban Overture Gershwin/Tovey: 12/11 Stravinsky: Fireworks Pereira: Threshold A Foggy Day Ives: The Unanswered Question Brahms: Symphony No. 1 (Maraca 2, perc; Joseph Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Pereira, tim; Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Ives/Schuman: Variations on America Williams: Dudamel, cond) Selections from Lincoln Dvorák: Symphony No. 9, 12/18 Piston: Symphony No. 7 Prokofiev: Piano From the New World (Bramwell Tovey, p; Adolph Concerto No. 2 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Herseth, tr; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Duain Pathétique (Natasha Paremski, p; Oregon Symphony; Wolfe, dir; various conductors) Carlos Kalmar, cond) 12/10 Handel: Messiah (Amanda Forsythe, s; 12/25 Eryilmaz: Miniatures Set No. 6 Hailstork: Sasha Cooke, ms; Nicholas Phan, t; Joshua Hopkins, Arabesques Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos bar; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolfe, dir; Aires Dvorak: Silent Woods (Saint Paul CO) Matthew Halls, cond) 1/1 Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Suite, Piano 12/17 Bizet: Roma Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana Concerto No. 3, Symphony No. 5 (Fabio Bidini, p; (Anita Rachvelishvili, ms; Piero Pretti, t; Luca Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, cond) Salsi, bar; Ronnita Miller, ms; Sasha Cooke, ms; Alessandra Visconti; Chicago Symphony Chorus, SATURDAYS @ 1PM Duain Wolfe, dir; Riccardo Muti, cond) THE METROPOLITAN OPERA 12/24 Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, 12/5 Prokofiev: War and Peace (March 2, 2002) Piano Concerto No. 20 Varèse: Déserts Stravinsky: 12/12 Beethoven: Fidelio (October 28, 2000) Divertimento, Suite from The Fairy’s Kiss, Suite from 12/19 Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel (January 6, The Firebird (Mitsuko Uchida, p; Riccardo Muti and 2018) Pierre Boulez, cond) 12/26 Mozart: The Magic Flute (December 21, 2010) 12/31 Bruckner: Psalm 150 Bartók: Cantata profana 1/2 Glass: Satyagraha (November 19, 2011) Brahms: A German Requiem (Ruth Welting and 1/9 Rossini: Il Barbieri di Siviglia (April 26, 2007) Kiri Te Kanawa, s; John Aler, t; John Tomlinson and Bernd Weikl, bar; Chicago Symphony Chorus, SUNDAYS @ 1PM Margaret Hillis, dir; various conductors) THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC 1/7 Stravinsky: Concerto for String Orchestra 12/6 Haydn: Symphony No. 95 Martinu: Incantation, Prokofiev:Violin Concerto No. 2 Traditional/ Piano Concerto No. 4 Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 Limonov: Auld lang syne Tchaikovsky: Symphony (Garrick Ohlsson, p; Xian Zhang, cond) No. 6, Pathétique Ives: I V. Thanksgiving and 12/13 Bach: Concerto for Violin and Oboe Mozart: Forefathers’ Day from New England Holidays Symphony No. 33 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 Symphony (Nicola Benedetti, v; Chicago Symphony (Jeffrey Kahane, p; Sheryl Staples, v; Liang Wang, ob; Chorus, Margaret Hillis, dir; Michael Tilson Thomas, Jeffrey Kahane, cond) cond) 12/20 Brahms: Symphony Nos. 3 and 4 (Kurt Masur, 1/14 Corelli: Concerto grosso Giacomelli: Sposa cond) non mi conosci from Merope Veracini: Già presso 12/27 NYP Jukebox—Winter Holiday al termine from Adriano in Siria Vivaldi: Violin 1/3 Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 Stravinsky: Concertos in D and E, L’amoroso Ariosti: Questi Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra Beethoven: ceppi from Le fede ne’ tradimenti Vivaldi: Agitata Symphony No. 7 (Peter Serkin, p; David Zinman, da due venti from Griselda, Violin Concerto, La cond) stravaganza Corelli: Concerto grosso Beethoven: 1/10 Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 Barber: Cello Piano Concerto No. 3 (Vivica Genoux, ms; Fabio Concerto Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 (Alisa Biondi, v and cond; Paul Lewis, p; Christoph von Weilerstein, c; David Zinman, cond) Dohnányi, cond) pg. 15 WXXI FM91.5 DECEMBER 2020/EARLY JAN. 2021
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 6AM Classical 24 Classical Music with John Andres 7AM Classical Music with Brenda Tremblay 8AM Performance Today Weekend With Heart and Voice 9AM with Fred Child with Peter Dubois
10AM Performance Today The Score with Edmund Stone with Fred Child Sunday Baroque 11AM Fascinatin’ Ryhthm w/Michael Lasser with Suzanne Bona 12PM Classical Music w/Marianne Carberry Classical Music 1PM with Julia Figueras Classical Music with Joshua Bassette 2PM The Metropolitan Opera 3PM The New York Philharmonic Orchestra 4PM Classical Music Classical Music w/Marianne Carberry 5PM with Mona Seghatoleslami From the Top 6PM The Score Classical Guitar Alive 7PM Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin Fascinatin’ Ryhthm With Heart & Voice 8PM Syndicated Orchestra Series Feminine Fusion with Diane Jones Pipedreams 9PM (see previous page) with Michael Barone Echoes with John DiLiberto 10PM The Spanish Hour (Monday) Concierto (Tuesday) Hearts of Space with Stephen Hill 11PM Classical 24 (Wednesday) Fiesta! (Thursday) Echoes (Friday) Classical 24 Classical 24 MID+ Classical 24
WEDNESDAYS @ 12:10PM ON WXXI CLASSICAL FM 91.5 Broadcast live from The Hochstein School, the series, hosted by Classical 91.5’s Mona Seghatoleslami, presents performances by some of the finest artists from the Rochester area’s musical community. Usually the artists perform before a live audience, but due to the pandemic there will be no audience in the house. Performers will return to the stage, adhering to social distancing protocol.
12/2 Madrigalia: A Physically Distanced Cup of Good Cheer Tune in for this annual celebration of the holiday season with the choral chamber ensemble Madrigalia under the direction of Cary Ratcliff, artistic director.
12/9 Back and Beyond with Natalie Spehar Hochstein cello instructor Natalie Spehar’s concert includes works by Bach and William Grant Still, among others.
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